Timeline:25 Jun 1944: Established as
OSAKA POW CAMP No. 16 Branch Camp. Prior camp of POWs unknown.6 Apr 1945: Jurisdictional control transferred
to NAGOYA POW CAMP 4-BSep 1945: Rescue effected
300 British POWs arrived from Thai-Burma Railway. 284 POWs (British)
were rescued at the end of the war. 16 men died in this camp. ONLY
BRITISH at this camp.Per Toru Fukubayashi:"Mr.
Yamashita, who was the commander of Iruka Branch Camp (Nagoya No.4) in
Mie Prefecture, told me in 1998 that ideas about how to kill the POWs
had been discussed among the principal members of the branch camp."